wooliness

There’s a tarnished-bronze, baritonal nobility to Spyres’s voice, but strain in reaching the high register, and a kind of fogged wooliness just below.

This wooliness, however, is the point.

The 1989 sequel dispenses with all the dumb logic of the first and, in its unapologetic wooliness, makes greater comic sense than its predecessor: Casting Max von Sydow as a crabby ghost version of Vlad the Impaler was a mini stroke of genius.

This wooliness is also reflected in an organisational problem.

The minute she stepped into the musty wind of the tropical air conditioning, Marina smelled her own wooliness.